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Guy Delisle
Birth date: January 19, 1966
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Tomes and Tea Leaves
Tomes and Tea Leaves rated it 12 years ago
This is an odd book. It brings together the graphic novel and North Korean austerity. Canadian animator Guy Delisle spent time in North Korea, which has apparently become the new favored source for cheap animation labor. In this book Delisle captures the absurdities of life in Pyongyang, more throug...
The Holy Terror
The Holy Terror rated it 12 years ago
Aww man. Completely disappointing. Review to come.
veeral
veeral rated it 13 years ago
This was a second travelogue written by Guy Delisle after Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea. The plot is almost identical to Pyongyang. Guy Delisle goes to Shenzhen, China to work on an animation project for 3 months. But unlike Pyongyang, Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China is totally devoid of a...
veeral
veeral rated it 13 years ago
Not bad. The graphics are good. But having said that, Guy Delisle's work fails to shed any new light about the life of people living in North Korea. It might have been a revealing work when it was first published but almost all the things mentioned in the book about North Korea could be found easily...
pedestrienne
pedestrienne rated it 13 years ago
Couldn't help but compare it to Pyongyang, and then to the other Israel/Palestine comics I've read. This one's heftier and less focused than Pyongyang, and as for the other thing the more the merrier, I say, the visual medium helps the different places/facts/perspectives stick better.
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